NHL Announces Referees for Game 7 Between the Leafs and Panthers
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As the Leafs prepare for Game 7 Sunday night, they were able to avoid one controversial official and may have an advantage with the two selected to call the game.
Heading into Game 3, the Leafs held a 2-0 series lead before they had a run-in with one of the more controversial officials in Wes McCauley.
Under McCauley, the Leafs are now 0-10 in the post-season, but will thankfully avoid him for Game 7.
In fact, the Leafs appear to have an advantage with Chris Rooney and Jean Hebert patrolling the ice on Sunday night.
In games officiated by either Hebert or Rooney this season, the Leafs are 9-1-1 while the Panthers are 7-4-3. Both officials favoured home teams during the regular season as well, with home teams winning an average 66.5% of games when one or both of Hebert and Rooney wore the stripes.
Joining Hebert and Rooney on the lines are Devin Berg and Jonny Murray, so it is a very experienced crew in charge of managing the post-whistle scrums Sunday night.
Officiating has been questionable across the entire playoffs so far with teams and fans not knowing what is and isn't a penalty game-to-game or even period-by-period sometimes. Hopefully, tonight's game is called evenly on both sides at the very least, so that the officials don't become the reason the game is won or lost.
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MAI 18 | 2522 ANSWERS NHL Announces Referees for Game 7 Between the Leafs and Panthers How do you feel about tonight's officiating crew (Jean Hebert and Chris Rooney)? | ||
| Great! | 472 | 18.7 % |
| Not so good | 945 | 37.5 % |
| Don't care, just win | 1105 | 43.8 % |
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